Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Transition to sultanistic semiauthoritarianism? An Attempt at conceptualization

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-435

  Guliyev, Farid ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b KHAZAR UNIVERSITY   (Azerbaijan)

^c Qafqaz University   (Azerbaijan)

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; Democratization; Hybrid regime; Semiauthoritarianism; Sultanistic; Transition

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; DEMOCRATIZATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POST-COMMUNISM;

ASIA; AZERBAIJAN; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 28144454565     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/demo.13.3.393-436     Document Type: Article

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